Shoeshine & Meantime

In literature and film early works in the realistic or naturalistic style rejected idealization and romanticism in favor of a depiction of life as it appeared, not as it should appear. The post World War II era brought a new realistic style to film that came to be known as Italian Neo-Realism, a movement that focused on the lives and struggles of common people trying to get by in a war ravaged, poverty-stricken country. In subject matter and style, the Neo-Realists created a body of work between 1945 and 1949 that had a profound effect on world cinema. Neo-Realism films dealt with contemporary social issues from a humanist perspective; the filmmakers were not out to offer solutions to social problems, but to depict them by showing the effect on ind

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